New NASA 'Tool Set' Will Simplify Engineers' Efforts to Better Analyze Space Travel Concepts

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Tara Polsgrove and Larry Kos of NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville Ala. use Low-Thrust Trajectory Tools. The new software is designed to help engineers better analyze space-travel concepts and missions that use low-thrust propulsion tec ...
Tara Polsgrove and Larry Kos of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., use Low-Thrust Trajectory Tools. The new software is designed to help engineers better analyze space-travel concepts and missions that use low-thrust propulsion technologies. (NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham)

It's a complicated process -- analyzing potential missions to other planets. Yet the highly technical task may go more smoothly in the future, thanks to a new set of NASA software tools.


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